A feminist Latina studying literary modernism and photography, Laura Hartmann-Villalta was born in the Dominican Republic to American diplomat parents. Her scholarly interests include life writing, espionage, visual culture (particularly photography), war studies, poetry, and transnational modernism. Her current book manuscript, She, Too, Went to Spain, is a literary history of the Spanish Civil War focused on forgotten female writers and photographers of the war. She earned her PhD in English literature at Northeastern University in 2016, and currently teaches at Georgetown University.